Silvia Angeli, Sophie Angrilli
Italy

The project is located in the southern part of Tokyo, Japan. The area is adjacent to Hamarikyu Gardens where the Skyscraper wants to stand out against the adjoining buildings. The project’s goal is to show and help the huge problem of high suicide’s rate among young people (6-24) in the city of Tokyo. This problem is affecting Japanese’s population for many decades; the origin of this vast problematic, according to our analysis, lies in the society itself. Individualistic culture, lack of people’s care and strong competition inside the educational system are driving young people to develop strong feelings of anxiety and pressure to stand out in order to gain a position in the world of work. The fear of failure is not challenged with the support of family and friends but, on the contrary, is repressed until becoming fatal. Indeed the day with the highest number of suicides is the first day of school. Moreover, Japanese’s culture has not a concept of soul as is known in occidental culture, so that suicide is seen as a solution and preferred to failure. That’s why the location of the building has also been chosen according to the distance with the main schools.

该项目位于日本东京的南部。该地区毗邻Hamarikyu花园，摩天大楼希望在毗邻的建筑物中脱颖而出。该项目的目标是展示和帮助东京市年轻人（6-24岁）的高自杀率问题。这个问题数十年来一直影响着日本人的生活。根据我们的分析，这个巨大问题的根源在于社会本身。个人主义文化，教育系统内部缺乏人们的关怀和激烈的竞争，正在推动年轻人形成强烈的焦虑感和压力，以站在劳动世界的位置上脱颖而出。在家人和朋友的支持下，对失败的恐惧不会受到挑战，相反，它会受到压制直到变得致命。事实上，自杀率最高的一天是上学的第一天。而且，日本的文化没有西方文化中所知的灵魂概念，所以自杀被认为是解决问题的办法，更倾向于失败。这就是为什么建筑的位置也是根据与主要学校的距离来选择的。

A PLACE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE 一个适合年轻人的地方
Our project wants to help this situation offering young people a place where they can freely develop their personal skills, even in the field of art, which is nearly not considered in the scholar system. The building has the function of community center; growing from the base through the length of the building, the different activities are distributed in opaque-glass-boxes. The center will give children the opportunity to meet new people and share their passions. This will eventually decrease the suicide’s rate.

我们的项目希望帮助这种情况，为年轻人提供一个可以自由发展个人技能的地方，即使在艺术领域，这在学者体系中几乎没有考虑到。该大楼具有社区中心功能; 从基地一直延伸到建筑物的整个长度，不同的活动分布在不透明的玻璃箱中。该中心将让孩子们有机会结识新朋友并分享他们的激情。这最终会降低自杀率。

WOODEN MODULES 木制模块
The second way we intend to help the problem is using the facade of our skyscraper to show the real suicide’s rate. Our intention is to assemble wooden-cube-module outside of the glass boxes, according to a fixed number calculated every year with the average of monthly suicides. These modules are mechanically assembled with an automate technology programmed with the live information of suicides’ rate. The modules have different sizes from the outside to the inside: they are outside related to the urban scale, and inside to the human one. The project will not give people just a hope for the future, it will give people a future.

我们打算帮助解决问题的第二种方式是使用摩天大楼的外墙展示真正的自杀率。我们的目标是按照每年计算的固定数量和每月自杀的平均值在玻璃盒外组装木制立方体模块。这些模块采用自动化技术进行机械组装，自动化技术以自杀率的实时信息进行编程。这些模块从外部到内部都有不同的大小：它们与城市规模以外相关，内部与人类规模相关。该项目不会给人们未来的希望，它会给人们一个未来。